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Dec 15, 2009 · Learn about the 19th-century American movement westward, from the Louisiana Purchase to the Mexican War, and its impact on slavery, politics and culture. Explore the timeline, events and facts of westward expansion and its challenges.
The American West, 1865-1900. [Cattle, horses, and people at the fair with stables in the background] Popular Graphic Arts. The completion of the railroads to the West following the Civil War opened up vast areas of the region to settlement and economic development.
2 days ago · Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes, Third Edition is a fully updated reference discussing more than 200 American Indian tribes of North America, as well as prehistoric peoples and civilizations. Summarizes the historical record - locations, migrations, contacts with non-Indians, wars, and more - and includes present-day tribal affairs and ...
Aug 16, 2016 · Dismantling cherished fables about the Old West and stripping the romance from the history of “Westward Ho,” newer studies have exhumed the human casualties and environmental costs of...
The American frontier, also known as the Old West, and popularly known as the Wild West, encompasses the geography, history, folklore, and culture associated with the forward wave of American expansion in mainland North America that began with European colonial settlements in the early 17th century and ended with the admission of the last few ...
The history of the American West in the late 19th and early 20th centuries has acquired a cultural mythos in the literature and cinema of the United States.
2 days ago · American frontier Map of the western United States in 1846. the West, region, western U.S., mostly west of the Great Plains and including, by federal government definition, Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.
